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Atmospheric chemistry expert offers historical context on how health agencies missed mark on airborne COVID-19 – Straight.com
Jose-Luiz Jiminez of the University of Colorado has been raising the alarm about this issue for more than a year.
Last July, the Georgia Straight published a story listing 10 COVID-19 facts that should scare people into wearing masks.
Under the subheadline “Airborne transmission”, writer Martin Dunphy cited growing evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could spread through aerosols.
According to Dunphy, research suggested that these aerosols were “much smaller droplets, less than five micrometres in diameter”.
They could be “exhaled while breathing and talking”. Moreover, he noted that they “can even hitchhike…
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